AT&T had a refurb special $99 !! ..and I'm getting Apple Care on this one! My old iPhone died 2 months ago and I've felt naked with this "Go Phone", with no features... clunky menus... AHHH! Drives me nutz ! Only reason I got it was that it was a hand me down from my #2 son just to get me to June/July when the new iPhone arrives (3rd Generation).

well son #1 iPhone (2G) has some slight damage, his ringtones don't work well and the screen looks like it has a little water damage- everything else is fine. He doesn't know how that happened, but it's 20 months old... so I checked with AT&T on line and here's my shrewd plan. BWAH-AH-AHA-HA !

1. Dad replaces Go Phone with 8 Gb 3G iPhone now.2. 3rd Gen iPhone comes out in summer and Dad upgrades.3. Transfers Data to new phone and ships this one to son #1.4. Son #1 transfers data from damaged old 2G to new 3G phone... we're all so much better off...

The AT&T guy said Yes it's doable. I recorded it !

so in 2 Days I'm back to normal - somewhat. Still gotta replace all those notes I had !! aye-ya-ya

That's what I did when I got my 3G iPhone. I talked to a rep at the local Apple store and he said giving the old 2G iPhone to my nephew was doable because my sister's family is on ATT. With that in mind I was ready but they didn't have the particular model I wanted so I ended up going to a local ATT store nearer me. They had to put me on a list since this model was in hot demand at the time but I figured I could wait. It was well worth it as they transfered my data from the old phone, set up my voice mail, and gave me back the old iPhone which I took to my sister's house. There I hooked it up to iTunes on their Windows system and reset it to factory standards. I then gave it to my sister and told her to give it to my nephew who was very happy to get a free iPhone from his cool uncle.

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"It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness."

I dropped my 2G iPhone and the screen cracked. It is still working fine for the most part but I have had about 3-4 freezes. I went to our IT director to order a new 3G model and saw the same $99 refurb. Awesome deal! My company pays for the plan but I buy the phone. Which is a good deal all around for me.

The old iPhone is still under AppleCare and I am going to try to get the screen replaced so I can give it to my 14 yr old as an iPod Touch with a camera after I remove the SIM.

The screen died - went black with no touch functions- on Dec 31st.Phone still worked but I couldn't answer. All data still there. synced with iTunes, but I can't see anything to push on the screen. real bummer !! I've felt naked without it.

My iPhone died on 12/31/2008 around 4 PM. Screen went black and though it worked (rang) I couldn't answer and had NO touch functions... so it was Not useable!

One anguish I had was all the Notes I had in the Notebook, passwords, account numbers, website IDs, more passwords, SS numbers, DL numbers ,,, tons of stuff that was like my right arm ! When you sync to your Mac or PC there is no program or Notepad that this App syncs with - I even asked someone at the Genius Bar. I had just resigned myself to have to gradually replace all the data.

Well, I got the new refurbished iPhone today and synced to to my old phone file on the G5, and VIOLA !! the Notepad was fully restored (all data there) though you never SEE it on the computer desktop , when you sync it.

Yeah Reboot, that's what surprised me.. since you never see it anywhere but on the iPhone, I thought it was a gonner !! Even the guy at the Apple store couldn't tell me why the NotePad didn't sync with something on the computer. I even suggested Text Edit or Word or even Preview.

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